Volume One - Into the Victorian Age - The Penarth Shipbuilding & Ship Repairing Company Limited . . .

	A drawing of the Compound Surface Condensing Marine Screw Engines of the Mission Steamer 'Eirene'.
	May 1898 - Launch and Consecration of the Missions to Seamen Yacht 'Eirene'.

The Mercantile Navy List for 1900 has an entry for the 'Eirene' whose port of registry is London in 1899. she was built at Penarth in 1898 was 75ft. - 7in. long x 15ft. - 1in. breath x 8ft. - 5in depth of hold. She was of 21 net tons, 67 gross tons with a 24 horsepower steam engine and screw driven. She was registered to the Missions to seamen Trust Corporation, Limited, at 11, Buckingham Street, Strand, London and the Rev. C. W. H. Browne, Caerwood, Penarth, near Cardiff was the registered managing owner.

The 1910 register is the same except that the managing owner has changed to the Rev. Herbert E. H. Coombes, M.A., Free Roadstead, Penarth, near Cardiff.

The register was closed in 1914 suggesting that 'Eirene' had probably ended her useful life by that date and had been scrapped. [630]